AI Researchers Revolt Against a New Paywalled Nature Journal

These 2,000 researchers include "several employees of Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Netflix and other companies..." who most certainly can afford to PAY the requested fee rather than profit (at zero cost) off the backs of people who actually DO the research!

Well, if you read the article, you'll see that they just quote the statement by the editorial board of Machine Learning Journal which in 2001 quit to for free Journal of Machine Learning Research. Nature Machine Learning is supposed to launch in January 2019 and this is what this new petition is all about. So, no, it is not 17 years old content. Thanks for trying, though.